Chadds Ford’s Martha King Named Timbersport Champ a 3rd Time

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Martha King of Chadds Ford is shown holding her trophy and toasting her victory after winning the National Womens Championship at the Stihl Timbersports competition.
Image via Stihl Timbersports.
Martha King of Chadds Ford is shown holding her trophy and toasting her victory after winning the National Womens Championship at the Stihl Timbersports competition.

Lumberjill Martha King of Chadds Ford is the first woman to win three U.S. Championships at the Stihl Timbersports U.S. Championships competition, writes Hayden Mitman for NBC 10 Philadelphia.

King competed over the weekend in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

She took on competitors across the country in the National Women’s Championship competition in a hard-fought wood-shopping sports contest and once again earned the top spot.

King won the National Women’s Championship twice before in 2019 and 2021.  The 34-year-old also took the International Women’s Cup in Vienna in May 2022.

King won by marking her personal bests “in the Standing Block Chop and Underhand Chop disciplines with times of 30.99 seconds and 31.97 seconds, respectively.” according to a statement from organizers.

“I just feel so powerful and on fire when I’m up here,” King said in a statement on her win. “I gave it my all today.”

King is an arborist working in her family’s business, Chadds Ford Tree Service started by her parents in 1980.

For the men’s competition, Jason Lentz of Diana, West Virginia took home the gold.

Timbersports involves using axes and saws and performing tasks done by lumberjacks.

Find out more about the unique world of Timbersports at NBC 10 Philadelphia.


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